Modern Style Portrait Of A Woman In A Black Hat.

This is a mixed media portrait I did of a woman wearing a black hat. I painted it on watercolor paper using watercolor, acrylic, markers, and gesso.

I started with several sketches and then splashed a lot of blue and violet watercolor on the paper. After that dried I began to use markers to start the details. I developed the face with acrylic paint. I try to not use black but lately I have been a little enthralled with the possibilities of its effect on a colorful picture.  I was afraid that I would get carried away but I managed to hold back a little. I used gesso both white and black to tone the colors down.

I found myself working over different places several times to get it right; which is something I do not like to do in watercolor since the colors bleed into each other, but it worked out beautifully.

At first, I was going to leave the hair white but the picture needed more color so I went with the model's hair color, but not in total since I was not really trying to do a portrait but art. If you want the picture to look like the subject then you should take a photo but I wanted to do something more.

I had a lot of fun painting this and hope you enjoy looking at it.

Mixed Media Portrait Of A Young Woman

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Pencil Portrait of a Teen Aged Blond Woman

This is a teenaged fashion model.

I drew this in a small 9x6 sketchbook/ I drew it with a4b, 2b.and 6b pencils. It took about an hour. Since it was a small area there is more difficulty with details, a little mistake is bigger. I found that I had to go back over the features, again and again, to get things right.

Pencil sketch of a teenage model.

Her hair was light so I was trying to keep it light and still give some detail. I was really wishing I had some charcoal to work with but I didn't bring any with me. Charcoal gives some beautiful values in a drawing that pencil just can't match.

A lot of portraits have the neck and under jaw in dark shadows and my resource material did but I kept the values lighter because the dark jawline and neck looks contrived and makes the face look like it is coming out of some cave.  I added a dark area on the top to give the dark below the neck some balance.

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Charcoal Portrait Of The Island Girl

I drew this while on vacation.

Charcoal Portrait of Island Girl

I started the drawing with a pencil and then began to fill it in with a light charcoal pencil after a while I switched to a medium charcoal pencil. I used a blending stub a lot. I did a lot of laying in the charcoal, blending, and then lifting it out before I got it right. There is still a few things about the picture I am not happy with but that is just me.


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Young Woman With Black Hair, Charcoal Portrait.

I did this sketch while at the car dealership waiting for my car to be serviced. It was a two hour project.

Woman with Dark Hair, Charcoal in Sketchbook.

The customer lounge at a car dealership is not the best studio to work in, there are a few little things I would have caught if I was working at my desk.

I started this drawing with a common pencil, and after getting things in place used a charcoal pencil set of medium and dark to finish the portrait. I am using a lot of blending stub work in my portraits these days, almost as much as the pencils, especially for the shadowing and staining the paper in the large areas.

The resource material had poor shadows and so I was not able to get the full roundness of many of the facial features. The hair was very black and very bulky, it made her head look too big at the crown but I kept it that way instead of editing I kept it as it was.  I wanted to only outline the hair at first and leave the face framed in a line representation but I was bored at the service station and kept on working it over until it came out as it did.

She was a dark skinned model. I am always afraid I will louse contours in the dark values so I made her lighter than she was, maybe that is not the right approach but I wanted to get the features right.  


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